| Psychohistorian Seldon of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" books | 73 |
| Pseudonymous surname used by a director who doesn't want to be associated with a film | 89 |
| Provider of an old silk hat, e.g. (as depicted at the top of this puzzle) | 73 |
| Proverb containing wisdom almost certainly contradicted by some other proverb | 77 |
| Protest activity for Cheney opponents as he left the White House in January? | 76 |
| Prosecutor's claim upon submitting evidence at the trial of Viking 1 | 72 |
| Proposed legislation whose current lead sponsor in the Sen. is Ted Kennedy | 74 |
| Proposed "fifth taste," which means "savory" in Japanese | 76 |
| Prophetic attire worn by most doomed characters on the original "Star Trek" TV show | 93 |
| Prophet of Thebes, struck blind by Athena when he accidentally saw her bathing | 78 |
| Proper sort ... or a cry upon solving each of this puzzle's theme answers? | 78 |
| Proof that a "Jersey Shore" character has an incontinence problem? | 76 |
| Promising words (and what's hidden in this puzzle's four longest entries) | 81 |
| Promise to a contact upon arriving at the rendezvous point with the suitcase | 76 |
| Prominent figure in the 1996 book "John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was" | 86 |
| Progressive bimonthly, before the second word was dropped from its title | 72 |
| Program that the figures at the end of the starred entries have in common | 73 |
| Program parodied on "Futurama" as "Single Female Lawyer" | 76 |
| Program hosted by a televangelist who's raising money for a school play? | 76 |
| Program about Andy Taylor's hometown being shaken up by a civil rights leader? | 82 |
| Program about a sarcastic naval officer who offers sound financial advice? | 74 |
| Program about a crime-fighting unit from the South that stages Civil War reenactments? | 86 |
| Prog band with a Grammy-nominated concert video directed by Steven Soderbergh | 77 |
| Professional sports team with a very long championship drought (100+ years) | 75 |
| Professional responsibility committee's forte, after "legal" | 74 |
| Profession of Clementine's father in "Oh My Darling, Clementine" | 78 |
| Profanely-named song from the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" | 76 |
| Prof. Lidenbrock of Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" | 78 |
| Prof'l league sometimes called the "Dream Tour of Surfing" | 72 |
| Production company that distributed "The Silence of the Lambs" | 72 |
| Production co. responsible for "Lou Grant" and "Rhoda" | 74 |
| Product with the old jingle line "One little can will keep you running free" | 86 |
| Product with the old ad catchphrase "Mother, please, I'd rather do it myself!" | 92 |
| Product whose name was inspired by the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 78 |
| Product whose infomercial coined the phrase "But wait ... there's more!" | 86 |
| Product promoted as having both "beauty" and "brains" | 73 |
| Product once pitched with the line "Sometimes you feel like a nut" | 76 |
| Product once advertised with the catchphrase "There's no step 3!" | 79 |
| Product formerly with the "fabulous" spokesperson Vanessa Branch | 74 |
| Product advertised on TV with the phrase "not-so-fresh feeling" | 73 |
| Producer of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends" | 80 |
| Process by which an element's atomic number may be reduced, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 101 |
| Procedure improved by physician Alexander Bogdanov that left him dead of TB and malaria | 87 |
| Problems that may result from screwing studs without using some kind of barrier device: Abbr. | 93 |
| Probably my least-favorite Eric Clapton song (and that's saying something) | 78 |
| Probable rte. parts if you click "avoid highways" on Google Maps | 74 |
| Pro-___ (like someone who views an eating disorder as a lifestyle choice) | 73 |
| Pro Football Hall of Fame coach who once played for the New York Yankees | 72 |
| Prize for an aspiring musical artist, perhaps from the first word of the answer to a starred clue | 97 |
| Prison threshold (represented by this 4x4 corner) at which the solver must arrive | 81 |
| Princess who says "This is some rescue! You came in here, but didn't you have a plan for getting out?" | 116 |
| Prince ___ Land (historical Canadian region that drains into Hudson Bay) | 72 |
| Prince song with the line "You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on" | 86 |
| Prince called "the Impaler," who was the inspiration for Dracula | 74 |
| Prez who said "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" | 81 |
| Pretty intense way to refer to an undocumented worker, when you think about it | 78 |
| Press charges against a Snuggie-clad werewolf encountered on an acid trip? | 74 |
| Presidential concern about the wizard lobby influencing health care legislation? | 80 |
| Presidential candidate who said "No one can earn a million dollars honestly" | 86 |
| Presidential also-ran who last logged in to his MySpace on January 4, 2008 | 74 |
| President who said, "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em" | 82 |
| President who said "I have never felt any sort of fondness for war" | 77 |
| Prepare a reed for another passage, say after hundreds of measures of rests | 75 |
| Prefix with "violet," "liberal," or "conservative" | 80 |
| Prefix with ''political'' or ''logical'' | 72 |
| Prefix with ''personal'' or ''planetary'' | 73 |
| Prefix with ''ballistics'' or ''magnetic'' | 74 |
| Prefix with ''ballistic'' or ''dynamic'' | 72 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," refers to a crossword using every letter of the alphabeT | 92 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," describes names like Vivian Darkbloom and Mr. Mojo RisiN' | 97 |
| Prefix for ''surgeon'' or ''physiology'' | 72 |
| Prefect's friend in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 72 |
| POTUS who said: "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made" | 76 |
| Potentially stressful place to be, vis-a-vis one's sexual orientation | 73 |
| Potentially hackable polling system voted "Worst of Technology" by "Fortune" | 96 |
| Potent alcohol + caffeine choices recently forced by the FDA to change their formula, and this puzzle's theme | 113 |
| Postseason gridiron game, and a hint to the puzzle theme found in starred answers | 81 |
| Posthumous John Donne poem that includes "It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee" | 95 |
| Possible Variety headline if an "American Beauty" actress agrees to do a D.L. Coburn play? | 100 |
| Possible result of a waiter misunderstanding an order for broth with perch? | 75 |
| Possible response to "You've got spinach between your teeth" | 74 |
| Possible response to "what happened to the last piece of cake?" | 73 |
| Possible response to "My boss is leaving and I hate his replacement"? | 79 |
| Possible outcome of the event that is visually represented twice in this grid | 77 |
| Possible description of the number/appearance of the last Favre picture? | 72 |
| Possessive for Pierre (or, a dictionary volume that wouldn't include "jabber", I guess) | 101 |
| Position that probably won't get you invited to a work holiday party | 72 |
| Position held by Dirk Kempthorne before becoming George W. Bush's final interior secretary | 94 |
| Portuguese term meaning "suspects" brought up in the 2007 Madeleine McCann disappearance case | 103 |
| Portrayer of Felix in the movie "The Odd Couple," or Oscar in the TV series "The Odd Couple" | 112 |
| Portrayer of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" | 76 |
| Portland's st. [avxwords.com now has archived bundles - just $8/year] | 73 |
| Popular version of a design principle acronym spelled out by the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 113 |
| Popular picture fonts that come standard on Apple computers (named after a German type designer) | 96 |
| Popular gambling tourist spot in China that was part of Portugal until 1999 | 75 |
| Popular and bad-ass name for the Helix Nebula, which looks a little like Sauron | 79 |
| Popular 1980s arcade game where one had to fence off a supermajority of the screen | 82 |
| Pope who declared "I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition" | 81 |
| Pope John XXIII encyclical "Pacem in ___" ("Peace on Earth") | 80 |
| Pope called the "Lightning Pope" because he died 27 days after his election | 85 |